The CDC says the risk to most Americans is low but it is testing more suspected cases to identify whether the clade Ib strain has made it to the U.S.

The deployment of a safe and effective Lassa vaccine across 15 nations in  West Africa might save 3,300 lives and up to $128 ...

Monkeypox (MPX) is a viral zoonotic disease with symptoms similar to smallpox, although with less clinical severity. MPX was ...

Mpox is an orthopoxvirus that is related to smallpox, and spreads among rodents, squirrels and monkeys ... African countries of Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire along ...

Concerns about a newer and more deadly mpox strain, clade Ib, has the CDC testing more suspected mpox specimens, including ...

Lassa fever burden in West Africa ten times higher than previously thought – study Potential new variants could increase human and economic costs ...

Since then, research has shown that the main animal reservoir – in other words, the species among which the virus circulates in the wild – is rodents ... Ghana and Liberia), but also in ...

Liberia and Sierra Leone. The WHO now considers Benin, Ghana, Mali and Togo endemic for the disease as well. It was thought to live only in some multimammate rats, the most common rodent in ...

The following year, six additional human mpox cases were reported in Liberia, Sierra Leone ... due to the importation of mpox virus-infected West African rodents from Ghana. Between November 2005 and ...

Mpox is an orthopoxvirus that is related to smallpox, and spreads among rodents, squirrels and monkeys ... African countries ...